It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the idea that there is always more to learn and understand about our experiences and lives.
Mickey Mantle's quote reflects the profound truth that we often go through life without fully comprehending the complexities and nuances of our experiences. It serves as a reminder that knowledge and understanding are infinite, encouraging us to continually seek learning and self-awareness to truly grasp the 'game' of life we are participating in.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage lifelong learning.
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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